Earth’s continental crust may have begun forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, Yale scientists say — and the reason will be obvious to anyone who has ever baked a cake or a batch of cookies.
In a new study in the journal...
A Yale-led research team has discovered a molecular “device” found in nature that harvests a particular sliver of the sunlight spectrum in order to convert it into chemical energy.
In a study led by Yale’s Gary Brudvig and Christopher Gisriel, and Donald...
On a Saturday in December, Yale sophomore Richie Hsiung briefly laid down his fencing foil to deliver a piercing insight into probability density — and came up big for Yale mathematics.
Hsiung, along with teammates Deyuan Li and Andrew Milas, both Yale...
Yale astronomers are on the lookout for a “runaway” black hole — a supermassive black hole that was catapulted away from the center of its host galaxy by the gravitational force of multiple black holes interacting at once.
A trail of a potential rogue...
A group of new scholars hired by the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) is poised to launch a wave of innovative, multidisciplinary research programs aimed at measuring, mitigating, and adapting to the ongoing threat of climate change.
The...
Two Yale faculty members and a Yale-affiliated researcher have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Anna Marie Pyle, Michel Devoret, and Samuel...
Yale is where Amymarie Bartholomew learned to love the lab. Now she gets to pass that feeling forward — while pursuing new science in a lab of her own.
Bartholomew, an assistant professor of chemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, officially...
Yale and the University of Connecticut will use a $1 million planning grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to formally propose Connecticut as a regional hub for quantum-related research, technologies, and jobs.
Over the next five years, Yale geophysicist Jun Korenaga will be part of a scientific project funded by NASA to study the origin and early development of the Earth’s moon.
The ambitious project, known as the Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution (CLOE),...
Pinpointing when exactly animals first appeared on Earth is a bit like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack — but a new study has narrowed the search a bit.
Estimates for the arrival of Earth’s first animals — tiny, soft-bodied marine...